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" Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. "

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" We use metaphors to express our own truths. "

" All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record. "

" Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again. "

" The presence of a bed changes the way people interact. "

" If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that. "

" I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway. "

" It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway. "

" I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world. "

" There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage. "

" When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other. "

" Replace judgment with curiosity. "

" A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to investigate what I'm calling the 'de-industrial revolution.' "

" For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories. "

" It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way. "

" I wouldn't say I see my work as having a political ideology. Lynn Nottage certainly has a political ideology. I think that the work is an extension of who I am, but I don't think that when I write the play I'm looking to push the audience one way or another. "

" I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train. "

" I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays. "

" I like to go into a space, listen, absorb, and then interpret. "

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

" African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently. "

" As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation. "

" When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes. "

" 'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.' "

" For me, the first thing is to tell a good story. "

" I think sometimes you need distance to reflect. "

" We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore. "

" I am a storyteller by trade. "

" I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it. "

" Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations. "

" I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color. "